Xbox 360 to $ 100 may be sold outside the United States

 

"Microsoft says study lead model for other markets.
Game plan is sold with two-year subscription."

The Microsoft study carry the sales model that allows selling Xbox 360 game console for $ 100 through a subscription plan to other markets.
According to Chris Lewis, vice president of business entertainment company in Europe, the sales model, still unique in the United States, can be expanded globally.
"We see [the model] with great interest and decide whether it makes sense to expand sales in the U.S. or even globally," he said in an interview with "VG247". "The goal is to give option of choice for consumers."
The Xbox 360 sold for $ 100 has 4 GB of memory, which can be expanded using USB drives, and motion sensor Kinect. The game is sold with a subscription plan two years of Xbox Live with the user paying $ 15 per month for two years. The apparatus for this price began to be sold in stores in May at Microsoft, Best Buy and GameStop.
In Brazil, the cheapest model of the Xbox 360 without Kinect, is sold for $ 800.

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Search Google alters the functioning of memory, Study Finds

 

According to a survey conducted by scholars from the universities of Columbia, Wisconsin and Harvard, researching questions on Google changes the performance of memory in our brain. The study appears in the July issue of Science magazine.

According to the authors - Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu and Daniel Wegner - the ease of finding information via Google have changed the way our brain works when there is doubt, replacing the memory of the specific facts that you understand where the information can be found more easily - most often, on some website.

The notion that no information can be easily found by the computer notes would have been lowered in some volunteers memory tests, but on the other hand, people be able to retain more of the location at which data can be found that the information contained therein , allowing the birth of a more practical memory and allowing the brain to engage in other activities.

"The Internet has become our primary form of external memory, where information can be archived collectively instead of getting stuck in our minds," says the presentation of research.

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PlayBook 4G LTE is on track

 

RIM is going through difficult times , as we all know, and while still launching products, makes it more slowly than before. According to a leaked document, it seems that soon release its tablet RIM BlackBerry Playbook 4G LTE. Next week we will know if this is true.
It seems that 4G LTE connectivity is one of the main differences between the new model and current are in the market. The current model specifications are not bad, because it has a 7 inch screen with 1024 × 600, using a dual-core processor at 1GHz (the new rate would come with 1.5GHz), RAM is 1GB and minimum internal memory is 16GB (4G model would have only 32GB). It also has cameras on the front and back and of course it has Bluetooth and WiFi.
It is said that the PlayBook 4G LTE will be released on Tuesday and will cost $ 550.

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Problems between the betas of iPhone OS 6 and the number of apps

How many applications do you usually have installed on your iPhone / iPhone / iPod? Some people tend to limit the number of apps installed because it simply is not enough space for all, while others have a device with much internal memory + microSD card choose to install each application to see. Well, according to Mid Atlantic Consulting, devices that are using a beta of iPhone OS 6 and have installed about 500 applications will begin to run slower.
Increase the number of applications to about 1000 will cause the device to stop working completely, that is, prevent even turn on. As in IOS IOS 4 and 5, Apple should allow apps to be unlimited, or rather, limited by the available space. The company Apple will handle this issue, but apparently not be in the next beta, which will be the fourth of IOS 6.
Does anyone around here trying iOS 6 b3 has had this kind of problems?

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Sony launches new line of Walkman players

 

While smartphones are among us for years and will be for many years, people are still using music players, laptops instead of listening directly from your mobile phone . For such people, Sony has released a new line of Walkman players among which is included the great Sony F800 with 3.5 inch multitouch screen. The unit has a processor Tegra 2 dual core also uses Android 4.0 operating system.
The F800 comes in two versions: 16GB and 32GB memory. The first costs $ 270 dollars, while the remainder is priced at $ 300. Both versions feature Bluetooth and WiFi.
In addition to the F800, were presented three devices: the Sony and the Sony S770BT E570/E470. These are available in capacities between 4GB and 16GB whose costs are between $ 80 and $ 110, while the former has 8GB memory and 2-inch screen.

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The world's thinnest smartphone is also one of the most resistant

 

The smartphone world's slimmest was not manufactured by Apple nor Samsung, but the Chinese company Oppo, who decided to baptize his work as Oppo Finder . With 6.65 mm thick, I'm sure nobody expected this phone to be used as a hammer, right? Actually it can, and this is shown in the video below.
To refresh her memory, recall that the Oppo Super Finder has a screen 4.3-inch AMOLED Plus, with 16GB of space, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera and 1.3 megapixel front, not to mention further that uses Android 4.0 ICS.
Look at the video and you can see that the Oppo Finder goes almost without a scratch after his meeting with some nails.

 

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Does the 64GB Galaxy S3 has been canceled?

Some may not know, but Samsung had planned to release a version of the Galaxy S3 would count for anything less than 64GB of memory. If you are someone who have been waiting impatiently because they want this version of the phone, then it is likely that the wait has ended, because Samsung does not release a 64GB Galaxy S3, or   at least that will happen in the UK. It appears that an order for this phone to Expansys store was canceled because Samsung has decided not to release this version.
There are no official statements about it, and may have been canceled in England but not the rest of the world, so there is still hope. In any case, there appears to launch the smartphone with so much memory is something suitable, since it already carries a built-in microSD card slot, with which we can increase the space available in a few more GB.
There will be watching to see if there are more details in the coming days.

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XPad, the Android tablet world's cheapest

 

Remember the XOPC? That mythical tablet was created in India and considered the cheapest in the world due to its price of only $ 35. Now say, does anyone know Simmtronics? Probably not, but that's not important. The important thing here is that this company has made ​​the Android tablet cheapest in the world, the XPad, which costs only $ 81 U.S. dollars.
Despite its low price, yet the device has component technology base: an ARM CPU 8, multitouch screen, 4GB of memory and WiFi. It plans to focus sales on the East and Southeast Asia, but could also launch a version for students in the Middle East. The XPad be sold in sizes 7, 8, 9, 9.7 and 10 inches, in addition, each version will run on Android 4.0 ICS and will support full HD video playback. If you expand the memory of XPad, you can use a microSD card.
A tablet of $ $ 81 makes even the new Nexus 7, $ 200 seems expensive, right? 

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